Imperial Policy & Colonial Society

Question 1

England’s main economic philosophy during the colonial period, in which the government must strictly regulate the economy to protect industry and promote England’s prosperity.

Answer 1

Mercantilism

Question 2

This term referred to the differences and interests of each region in the North American colonies: North, South, West.

Answer 2

Sectionalism

Question 3

Economic philosophy that required colonies to provide raw materials for British industries and then have the colonies purchase the finish product.

Answer 3

Mercantilism

Question 4

This was an aspect of Mercantilism, in which a listed number of colonial products could only be shipped to England.

Answer 4

Navigation Acts

Question 5

The Mercantilist system led to the American colonial economy to become subordinate to that of which mother country?

Answer 5

England

Question 6

What effect did the Navigation Acts have on the colonies?

Answer 6

Restricted trade

Question 7

A mercantile policy in which the colonies could only trade with England and restricted trade to using colonial made or English ships. This policy created resentment in the American colonies.

Answer 7

Navigation Acts

Question 8

This Navigation Act forbade the production of woolen cloth for export from the colonies.

Answer 8

Woolens Act (1699)

Question 9

This Navigation Act prohibited the manufacture of hats from the colonies

Answer 9

Hat Act (1732)

Question 10

This Navigation Act taxed non-English sugar, rum, and molasses imported into North America.

Answer 10

Molasses Act (1733)

Question 11

This Navigation Act prohibited certain types of iron manufacturing in the colonies.

Answer 11

Iron Act (1750)

Question 12

This was an attempt by King James II to place the New England colonies under his direct control for violating the Navigation Acts.

Answer 12

Dominion of New England (1686)

Question 13

This is another term for the Atlantic trade system in which slaves and gold from Africa; sugar, molasses, lumber and rum from the West Indies and the colonies; and manufactured goods form Europe were to be traded, one for the other.

Answer 13

Triangular Trade

Question 14

This tied together the economies of Europe, the Americas, and Africa and brought slaves to America.

Answer 14

Triangular Trade or Atlantic Trade System

Question 15

This term referred to the self-government in the American colonies where British polices were more conceded with defending territory and strengthening the British economy and trade. Political affairs not a priority during this time.

Answer 15

Salutary Neglect

Question 16

Bi-cameral legislatures, town meetings, courts, laws, no standing armies, landowners could vote, no British troops, and governors were a puppet of the king are all characteristics of what?

Answer 16

Colonial Governments

Question 17

Under the colonial bi-cameral legislature, who represented the Lower House?

Answer 17

Colonists elected by eligible voters

Question 18

Under the colonial bi-cameral legislature, who represented the Upper House?

Answer 18

Colonists appointed by the king

Question 19

Immigrants in the American colonies came from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Immigrants also consisted of Germans, Scots-Irish, Huguenots, Dutch, and Swedes. Where did these colonials emigrate from?

Answer 19

Northwestern Europe

Question 20

What did these things create: Dominance of English Culture,Self-Government,Religious toleration,No hereditary aristocracy, Social Mobility

Answer 20

Structure of Colonial Society

Question 21

Which colonies economy centered on tobacco, rice, and indigo?

Answer 21

Southern Colonies

Question 22

Which colonies economy centered on wheat and corn.

Answer 22

Middle Colonies

Question 23

Which colonies economy centered on lumber, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, and rum?

Answer 23

New England Colonies

Question 24

This movement became the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. This philosophy stressed that human reason could improve society.

Answer 24

The Enlightenment

Question 25

This Enlightenment thinker wrote Two Treaties of Government, which reasoned that people had the right to overthrow a government that failed to protect their rights.

Answer 25

John Locke

Question 26

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are in which U.S. document?

Answer 26

Declaration of Independence

Question 27

Many Enlightenment thinkers and founding fathers believed that God created the universe, but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature. Natural laws could be discovered by the use of human reason.

Answer 27

Deism

Question 28

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and stressed John Locke’s idea of natural rights.

Answer 28

Thomas Jefferson

Question 29

Yale, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Rutgers were founded for what purpose?

Answer 29

Train ministers

Question 30

This preacher gave many sermons and argued that God was angry at human sinfulness. His famous sermon was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which was about the terrors of hell and damnation.

Answer 30

Jonathan Edwards

Question 31

Between the 1730s-1740s, a wave of religious revivals spread across the American colonies. Preachers gave sermons to frighten and challenged religious authorities, which reinforced questioning political authority.

Answer 31

The FIrst Great Awakening

Question 32

These established clergy (preachers) were against the First Great Awakening.

Answer 32

Old Lights

Question 33

These ministers (preachers) advocated an emotional approach to religious practice, which weakened the authority of the Old Light minsters and established churches.

Answer 33

New Lights

Question 34

This Evangelical preacher from England helped spread the flames of religious revivalism in colonial America. He preached about hellish torments of those who do not believe.

Answer 34

George Whitefield

Question 35

First notable American poet and first woman published in colonial America.

Answer 35

Anne Bradstreet

Question 36

Published African American poet noteworthy for her triumph over slavery.

Answer 36

Phillis Wheatley

Question 37

Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack, which consisted of sayings about thriftiness, industry, morality, and common sense.

Answer 37

Benjamin Franklin

Question 38

These two characteristics describe women in colonial America.

Answer 38

Lost control of her property when married and she had no separate legal identity apart from her husband.

Question 39

Governors in colonial America were generally seen as a puppet for whom?

Answer 39

The English King

Question 40

Salutary Neglect officially ended in the colonies in 1763 at the end of which war?

Answer 40

French and Indian War